quick question but I’ve read that lemmy federates with both mastodon and peertube (I have checked and can find myself here: https://mastodon.social/@Scraft161@iusearchlinux.fyi but I am unable to see any users from mastodon or peertube.

Search failing on lemmy:
Screenshot of a search for "@torvalds@social.kernel.org" returning nothing

Same search on mastodon.social:
Screenshot of the same search successfully returning the user's profile

Is there something I’m doing wrong or has federation not been implemented both ways as of yet?

EDIT: minor formatting regarding images

  • sexy_peach@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You can’t follow people, only groups. It is not planned atm for lemmy, because then you would need a different feed for users and their pots.

    • Scraft161@iusearchlinux.fyiOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      yeah, I noticed lemmy doesn’t support self posts (posts to your account instead of a community) and there is no follow option for users on lemmy (even though these feeds exist on mastodon). I might head over to their GH and properly see if they have an open issue/discussion about this because it only really feels natural for this to exist if two way federation with other platforms is desired.

      I am loving lemmy from a purely technical perspective and I would love to see it get better and have full federation with these platforms.

      • sexy_peach@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Mastodon is implementing groups I think which should be able to be followed from lemmy, I think. That would be cool.

        • Scraft161@iusearchlinux.fyiOPEnglish
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          1 year ago

          if so that would open up one part of federation that makes sense to lemmy, it would be a great first step to see federation go the other way; but I also believe lemmy should step up it’s game if it wants to be proper part of the fediverse.